Showing posts with label Super Duty Catalina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Super Duty Catalina. Show all posts

Friday, August 21, 2009

1963 pontiac Super Duty Swiss cheese






Here we have the 1963 Pontiac Super Duty Swiss Cheese restoration moving along . The frame was completed and Base coat being applied to the body . The engine has been rebuilt and placed back into the frame ready for the body to be dropped back on soon .

Friday, November 28, 2008

The Swiss Cheese as it is today being restored to the stock wheelbase .












The trunk and the wheelwells have been put back to stock and now Jimbo replaces the butchered firewall .And soon he'll be welding in a new floor . Heck , i remember building the frame for this many years ago . We had a lot of hours restoring it to the altered wheelbase stage . It's a lot of work seperating all the body pannels and welding them back to stock , but this car deserves it as there is a lot of history behind it ! As i said this is the fastest Swiss Cheese car ever built and the last one built .
Well enough for now and keep checking in to see the progression of this build . Grovis

Very rare 1963 Swiss Cheese Super Duty Catalina restoration project !






1963 Swiss Cheese Super Duty Catalina
Very rare restoration project !

A pictoral documentation of the last "Swiss Cheese " ever buit . This pontiac catalina was bought from Bill Blair by Tim as an altered wheelbase car and is being put back to stock at Tim Thorpes' shop . It was the beginning of the funny car era and this was the fastest cheese car built . Ran in the 9.20s i was told . Well here's a little history on the car . I'll be keeping you up to date on the build with a number of pictures.......................Grover